The government from Feb. 21 set up screening clinics for conducting COVID-19 field inspections in 14 areas known to have many foreign workers to better contain the pandemic. The photo shows a temporary testing facility set up at Seoul Station. (Jeon Han)
By Jung Joo-ri and Yoon Hee Young
The government from Feb. 21 set up screening clinics for conducting COVID-19 field inspections in 14 areas with heavy concentrations...
Mark Peterson, professor emeritus of Brigham Young University in the U.S., in a column posted on Feb. 17 on Korea.net refuted a paper by J. Mark Ramseyer, an American professor at Harvard Law School, claiming that women forced into sexual slavery by Japan in the early 20th century were "willing prostitutes." The photo shows surviving victim Lee Yong-soo on...
Korea Rail Corp. and Supreme Railways from Feb. 15 will sell tickets for aisle seats. From Dec. 8 last year, both companies had adopted the government's recommendation of selling only half or fewer available seats and only those by the window after the social distancing level was raised to 2.5. The photo shows the cabin of a KTX bullet train. (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's Public Communications...
Seollal (Lunar New Year), one of Korea's two biggest holidays, features the tradition of sharing tteok (rice cake) with family, relatives and neighbors.
By Xu Aiying and Yoon Hee Young
Seoul | Jan. 29, 2021
Photo = Kim Sunjoo
Feb. 12 is Lunar New Year's Day or Seollal, one of Korea's two biggest holidays.
The leading Korean food served on this day is tteokguk (rice cake soup), but also a tradition on this occasion is an array of tteok for sharing with...
The National Gugak Center on Feb. 14 presents for the first time online "Jongmyo Jeryeak," an elaborate performance of ancient court music and designated National Intangible Cultural Heritage No. 1, for Lunar New Year. (National Gugak Center)
By Kim Hyelin and Yoon Hee Young
Mass migration to hometowns, tteokguk (sliced rice cake soup), the charye (ancestral rites) table, seongmyo (visiting ancestral graves to perform rituals), yutnori (a traditional board game with four sticks) and sebae (prostration to...
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Yang-woo on Feb. 1 chairs the 14th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions via videoconferencing. (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism)
By Lee Jihae
The 14th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions will be held through Feb. 6.
The...
The Korea Minting Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corp. (KOMSCO) on Feb. 1 unveils its designs for commemorative coins honoring soccer coach Park Hang-seo, who heads the Vietnamese national team, at the government-run authority's headquarters in Seoul’s Mapo-gu District.
By Kim Yeojin and Yoon Hee Young
Photos = Korea Minting Security Printing & ID Card Operating Corporation
Commemorative coins honoring soccer coach Park Hang-seo, who heads the Vietnamese national team, will...
The New York Times in its Jan. 26 article titled "An Easy Path to Dinner, by Way of Korea" explained what jeon is and how to make it. The photo shows the traditional rice wine makgeolli. (Korea.net DB)
By Lee Jihae
The New York Times has featured the Korean pancake jeon.
In the article titled "An Easy Path to Dinner, by Way of Korea" posted on Jan. 26 in the...
President Moon Jae-in on Jan. 19 presents outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Korea Harry Harris with a gift set of the traditional liquor Andong soju at Cheong Wa Dae, urging the diplomat to continue taking an interest in and supporting the Korea-U.S. alliance. (Cheong Wa Dae's Facebook page)
By Yoon Sojung
President Moon Jae-in has given as a parting gift the traditional liquor...
Minister of the Interior and Safety Jeon Hae-cheol (third from left) on Jan. 12 inspects the preparation of COVID-19 vaccines at a testing center in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do Province. (Ministry of the Interior and Safety)
By Kim Eun-young and Yoon Sojung
The government is speeding up the process of vaccinations against COVID-19.
The Ministry of the Interior and Safety on Jan. 12 launched a support team...
A temporary facility for COVID-19 testing on Dec. 17, 2020, is set up in Seoul's Jung-gu District. (Jeon Han)
By Lee Jihae
The British daily Guardian has analyzed why Korea and other countries with relatively fewer COVID-19 infections like Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan are starting vaccinations later than other countries.
In a Jan. 8 article, the newspaper called Korea and other quarantine-exemplary countries "shining...
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Yang-woo (right) on Dec. 24 takes part online in the third Korea- Japan-China meeting of sports ministers with his Japanese and Chinese counterparts. (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism)
By Xu Aiying and Lee Hana
Korea, Japan and China have agreed to join hands in exploring the direction of sports policy in the COVID-19 era.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism...
The Ministry of Justice on Dec. 16 launched an online preregistration system allowing foreign nationals illegally residing in the country to voluntarily leave for the sake of containing COVID-19. The photo above is a scene from April this year at the Korean Immigration Service in Seoul. (Ministry of Justice)
By Park Hye Ri and Lee Jihae
Foreign nationals residing in Korea illegally can preregister online...
Minister of Science and ICT Choi Kiyoung (left) on Dec. 14 tests free Wi-Fi on a bus at a bus terminal in Seoul's Yeouido district at an event to mark the launch of the nationwide service. (Ministry of Science and ICT)
By Elena Kubitzki and Lee Hana
The country has achieved a world first by offering free Wi-Fi on all city buses nationwide.
The Ministry of Science and...
The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute on Dec. 7 said it is developing an unmanned robot system for response to a nuclear disaster. The photo above is of the robot TRAM (Tracked Radiation Area Monitoring) on the left, which monitors indoors, and ARMstrong (Accident Response Manipulator) in the middle, which responds to a disaster. Both robots are shown shutting entry and exit...
A domestically developed screening methodology for COVID-19 was adopted on Dec. 2 as a global standard by the International Organization for Standardization. (Korea.net DB)
By Kim Hyelin and Lee Jihae
A domestically developed methodology for COVID-19 screening using the lab technique reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been adopted as an international standard.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Food and...
Korea.net on Sept. 14 held an interview with Yook Sungpil, head of the Korean Psychological Association's special committee on COVID-19, at Yongmoon Graduate School of Counseling Psychology in Seoul. He talked about the symptoms of COVID-19 blues and how to respond to them (Kim Sunjoo)
By Kim Young Deok and Lee Jihae
Seoul | Sept. 14, 2020
An office worker cancels her trip abroad during the Chuseok (Korean...
Gift sets of face masks and hand sanitizers on Sept. 13 are displayed at a Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) gift corner in front of a grocery store in Seoul ahead of the holiday.
By Lee Kyoung Mi and Yoon Sojung
Photos = Lee Kyoung Mi
Seoul | Sept. 13, 2020
COVID-19 is reshaping the trends of Chuseok gift giving.
This is because the government has urged the people not...
The artificial intelligence robot Curly in March 2018 prepares its stone for a test match at the Icheon Training Center of the Korea Paralympic Committee. At the time, Curly lost a two-end game against a high school team, 3-0. (Korea.net DB)
By Kim Young Deok and Lee Jihae
Video = Korea.net
An artificial intelligence (AI) robot developed by Korean researchers has won three out of four games against a curling team comprising top female...
Seoul's Seocho-gu Office on Sept. 22 announced the deployment of artificial intelligence-based robots at three inter-city bus terminals ahead of the Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) holidays. (Seocho-gu Office)
By Kim Minji
Ahead of the Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) holidays next week, artificial intelligence-based robots have appeared at express bus terminals.
Seoul's Seocho-gu Office on Sept. 22 announced the measure to stem the spread of COVID-19 over...